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Welcome to Forum.

I'm Alexis Madrigal.

There have been a bunch of teacher strikes over the last few years, West Contra Costa, Oakland, others around the state. But it's been literally decades since the last teacher strike in San Francisco. Up first this morning, we've got San Francisco Chronicle K-12 education reporter Jill Tucker with us to catch us up on how we got to this point. Welcome, Jill. Thanks. Nice to be here.

So, okay, where are we? How long have they been bargaining? What's going on? Yes, so the San Francisco

School District and the Teachers Union have been bargaining almost a year,

and they have gone through all of the steps of bargaining from impasse to a mediator to fact-finding,

and now they are at the very, very last step, and on the brink of a strike waiting today for the fact-finding report, once that report

comes out, which is expected today, that is the final moment when the union and the district

can come to terms. And at that point, the union, which has already voted overwhelmingly to strike, can set a date for a strike.

So they typically have to give 48 hours notice.

So if that happens, we could see a strike as soon as Monday.

This fact-finding report, like, will it change anything?

You think, like, what will be in there?

So the fact-finding report is based on the two sides coming together with a neutral third

party and presenting their perspective on the budget and their perspective on what they believe to be a realistic

contract based on, you know, salary, benefits, all of all of the compensation and whether that's

class size or sabbaticals or or healthcare plans. And then the fact finder goes back and looks at all the information and then

provides recommendations for a contract based on the issues that are still outstanding. And both

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